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Eagle

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Type
Sculpture(Opens in new tab)
Date
ca. 1815
Accession number
2017.5.23
Maker
Unknown, American(Opens in new tab) (American)
Dimensions
19 x 48 x 16 in. (48.3 x 121.9 x 40.6 cm.)
Medium
white pine
Credit
The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens. Gail-Oxford Collection
Department
American Art
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View in the Art Museum catalog(Opens in new tab)
Carved architectural decorations, such as this rather ferocious eagle, is among the earliest examples of surviving sculpture in America. With its gnarled talons and expertly defined feathers, neck, and head, this eagle is a fine specimen of wood-carving traditions in early America and comes from a house built in 1815 in Cape Vincent, New York.

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